Speakers

Hetal Rupani

Assistant Director of Clinical Analytics,Johns Hopkins Hospital

Hetal Rupani, MHA, is Assistant Director Analytics in the Department of Emergency Medicine at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, MD. She holds a Master’s Degree in Health Administration from the University of Missouri in Columbia, MO. Her current focus is on providing data-driven analytics to support effective organization-wide decision making and process improvement. She has over 15 years of experience in working with the hospital to leverage analytics for competitive advantage and operational improvements. Prior to Johns Hopkins Hospital, she held a decision support analyst position at the University of Pennsylvania as well as a Management Analyst position at the University of Missouri.

Kamil Malikov

Director Health Data Science ,Ontario Ministry of Health and Long Term Care

Kamil Malikov is a Director, Health Data Science Branch. In this role Kamil is responsible for building new branch and marketing new services to the ministry. He led development of strategic and operational plans for the branch, building relations with key stakeholders within and outside OPS and compile portfolio of data science, artificial intelligence and statistical modelling projects to support major priorities of the ministry. Kamil has been with the Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care since 2009 when he started as a Manager, Methods and Modelling Unit, Health Analytics Branch.
In his previous role, Kamil was responsible for leading the development of advanced analytics products, including statistical models for forecasting, funding and evaluation of programs, and policies. Kamil led the provision of analytical support to Health System Funding Reforms, which resulted in enhancements to the HBAM cost module, development of costing and pricing methodologies for Quality Based Procedures (QBP), development of QBP volume allocation methods, and high cost users analyses that informed the ministry’s transformation agenda. His contributions have involved significant efforts in the mentoring and development of staff at all levels concerning the use of data and evidence to inform best practices and improve patient outcomes. This work is an essential underpinning for the ministry’s Patient’s First Action Plan. Prior to this position, Kamil held various management roles at McMaster University, where he led multinational clinical trials in cardiac surgery, industry, and United Nations agencies. He also served as a physician abroad and in international relief and development agencies.

Kamil is a proven leader with extensive public service experience, including Ontario Public Services, hospital and primary care and higher education sectors, specifically in the areas of data and information management, research, data analytics and reporting, project management, and project implementation.

Kamil is an Internationally Trained Medical Graduate and has a Medical Doctor degree from North Western Medical School in the Russian Federation. He has a Master of Science degree in Health Economics from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and London School of Economics. He has a Master of Business Administration from McMaster University. He is also a certified accountant with CPA and CMA designations.

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Mary Lou Ackerman

Vice President, Innovation,Saint Elizabeth Healthcare

Mary Lou Ackerman is Vice President of Innovation with Saint Elizabeth. Her background is extensive - she has led the development and implementation of many business improvement projects, innovations and partnerships. Mary Lou joined Saint Elizabeth in 1987 as a visiting nurse, and she has augmented her clinical background with a graduate business degree and significant experience with health informatics. Mary Lou has a passion for community health care, combined with a desire to advance home health care, using innovative solutions to support improved health outcomes and care delivery processes for both clients in their homes as well as the mobile work force that cares for them.

Shirley Fenton

Vice President and Director,National Institutes of Health Informatics Canada

Shirley Fenton has over 30 years of experience in information technology and business development. Her interests are the Science of Innovation, Health Informatics and eHealth, Biotechnology, Intelligent Communities and Community Informatics. She is Vice-President of the National Institutes of Health Informatics (NIHI), a Research Associate of the Computer Systems Group at the University of Waterloo, and a Co-Founder of Waterloo MedTech. Previously at the University of Waterloo, she was Managing Director, Waterloo Institute of Health Informatics Research and Business Development Director, Centre for Bioengineering and Biotechnology. She received the Zonta International Women of Achievement “Trailblazer Award” and in 2016, she was the inaugural recipient of the Healthcare Information Management and Communications Canada “Human Foundations Award”. She is a frequent speaker and panel moderator at national and international conferences. She is a tennis fanatic. Shirley obtained a Bachelor of Environmental Studies and a Master of Arts from the University of Waterloo.

Jan Walker

Tommy Wong

Director, Data and Analytics,Ontario Long Term Care Association

Matthew Murphy is the Director of Performance, Analytics and Accountability with Nova Scotia Health Authority. He holds a Master’s of Applied Health Services Research from Dalhousie University and is a Certified Health Executive with the Canadian College of Health Leaders. Matthew has held a variety of roles within healthcare over the past decade but has always maintained close ties to the health analytics community. He considers applied analytics as being central to effective, high performing healthcare systems, and has a passion for relating analytics to the delivery of care, and promoting a culture of data-driven decision making throughout the health system.

Angela Copeland

Director, Data and Analytics for Healthcare,Cancer Care Ontario

Angela is an innovation-focused change driver with a track record of leading large-scale, complex, transformational projects. She brings more than 20 years of leadership experience in healthcare informatics to her role as the Director, Data & Analytics Strategic Initiatives & Governance at CCO. She is responsible for the implementation and management of the action plan to realize CCO’s Data & Analytics Strategy. She is also responsible for the execution of an integrated enterprise-wide governance framework that incorporates policy and procedure setting, risk identification and mitigation, stewardship, compliance, quality and privacy/legal applications of data management and analytics. Previously, Angela was the Chief Information Officer & Privacy Officer at Runnymede Healthcare Centre whereby she spearheaded the IT build of a new 200-bed complex continuing care hospital. As the Director, Information Technology at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH), she successfully evolved the IT portfolio through a post-merger, Y2K and a multi-year site redevelopment plan. Angela has a Masters of Education (M.Ed.) with a focus in Adult Education and is a Certified Professional in Healthcare Information and Management Systems (CPHIMS). She is currently the elected Vice President on the Board of Directors at Digital Health Canada. She is a passionate individual who has dedicated her career to making a difference by advancing healthcare quality and performance through IM/IT initiatives.

David Wiljer

Dr David Wiljer is the Executive Director of Education, Technology & Innovation at the University Health Network, and former Senior Director of Transformational Education and Academic Advancement at CAMH. David is also an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine and the Institute of Health Policy Management and Evaluation at the University of Toronto. He is a former President of the American Association of Cancer Education and was the founding Chair of a national working group, the Canadian Committee for Patient Accessible Electronic Health Records (CCPAEHR), dedicated to involving patients in their EH. He was also an inaugural Associate Director of the Centre for Health, Wellness and Cancer Survivorship at the Princess Margaret Cancer Program at the University Health Network. His work focuses on digitally enabling patients to be active members in their care and focusing on creating digitally enabled learning organizations that optimize the use of data to improve practice.

Sinead McElhone

Surveillance and Evaluation Manager,Niagara Region Public Health

Sinéad McElhone has a BSc (Hons) degree in Human Nutrition and a DPhil in the large-scale epidemiological study of obesity in children and adolescents, both from the University of Ulster in Northern Ireland. She then worked in Deakin University Melbourne, Australia as a post-doc research fellow in the area of child obesity before returning to England an obtaining a position as a Senior Lecturer at Leeds Beckett University in the areas of nutrition, epidemiology and public health. She emigrated to Canada in 2013 with her husband and two children and obtained an Epidemiologist position within Niagara Region Public Health and became the Manager of Surveillance and Evaluation team which currently comprises of epidemiologists, medical informatics specialists, data analysts, a program evaluator, Data Governance Specialist, a Statistician and a geospatial health specialist. Her team is currently working to onboard public health programs and services onto an electronic medical record system, to implement and enhance current privacy, audit and governance standards and to make better use of the huge amounts of data that are currently being collected within Public Health. She is also an Adjunct Professor at Brock University within the Health Sciences Department.

Matthew Murphy

Matthew Murphy is the Director of Performance, Analytics and Accountability with Nova Scotia Health Authority. He holds a Master’s of Applied Health Services Research from Dalhousie University and is a Certified Health Executive with the Canadian College of Health Leaders. Matthew has held a variety of roles within healthcare over the past decade but has always maintained close ties to the health analytics community. He considers applied analytics as being central to effective, high performing healthcare systems, and has a passion for relating analytics to the delivery of care, and promoting a culture of data-driven decision making throughout the health system.

Alvin Cheng

Alvin is the Director of Health Analytics and Innovation at Toronto Central Local Health Integration Network (LHIN). An experienced healthcare leader, Alvin is interested in improving health outcomes for Ontarians utilizing evidence and analytics methods, digital technology innovation, and strong partnerships across the health system. Alvin leads the Toronto Central LHIN's digital health strategy, population planning, and performance and quality measurement work. Prior to joining the LHIN, Alvin worked at University Health Network as the Regional Program Manager for delivery of regional digital solutions, including Resource Matching and Referral (RM&R) and ConnectingOntario (cON). He holds a BASc and an M.Eng in Industrial Engineering from the University of Toronto, specializing in healthcare technology and information visualization.

Brian MacDonald

Adjunct Professor,University of Miami

Founder,Greater Than Plus Minus

Brian is currently Principal Consultant at GreaterThanPlusMinus LLC, where he specializes in all aspects of data science and analytics, especially data management, data visualization, predictive modeling, forecasting, and developing interactive web applications, for both sports and business applications. He is also currently an Adjunct Professor in Sports Analytics in the College of Business at Florida Atlantic University, and an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Management Science at the University of Miami.

Brian previously spent four seasons as Director of Hockey Analytics with the Florida Panthers Hockey Club, where he was responsible for analyzing data in both hockey operations and business operations. He also spent six years as an assistant and associate professor in the Department of Mathematical Sciences at West Point. He received a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from Lafayette College, Easton, PA, and a Master of Arts and a Ph.D. in Mathematics from Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD.

Anna Chyjek

Anna Chyjek is a health informatics professional with over ten years of experience within the private and public health care sector, primarily in the areas of healthcare transformation, digital health and strategic planning. As an innovative and strategic thinker who leverages her project management expertise and knowledge of leading practices, she has successfully managed several complex projects including functional integration initiatives, benefits evaluation studies, large-scale information technology implementations, and development of clinical and information management technologies. She has an avid interest in identifying novel opportunities for strengthening the health care system with a particular passion for technology- enabled and data-driven healthcare solutions.

Anna is a graduate of the University of Toronto, completing her Master’s Degree in Health Informatics and an Honors Bachelor of Science in chemistry, biology and French. She also recently received her Project Management Professional certification and is now in pursuit of her Lean Six Sigma Certification.

She is currently working at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health as a Senior Project Manager, focusing primarily on clinical projects. Prior to CAMH, she was a Project Manager at Sinai Health System and a Consultant at Deloitte Inc. during which her focus was primarily on healthcare transformation initiatives such as supporting the amalgamation between an acute care and rehab hospital and managing eHealth system implementations and evaluations.. Anna continuously aspires to be an impactful leader within the industry both in the eHealth domain and more broadly and strives to introduce further innovation and improvement in both.

Larry Svenson, PhD, FRSPH

Provincial Health Analytics Officer,Alberta Health

Larry Svenson is the Provincial Health Analytics Officer and Executive Director for Analytics and Performance Reporting at Alberta Health. He is responsible for working collaboratively with internal and external stakeholders to strengthen the analytic capacity of Alberta’s health sector, and the promotion of evidence-based decision-making.

In addition to his role with Alberta Health, he is also an Associate Professor with the Division of Preventive Medicine at the University of Alberta, and holds Adjunct Professor appointments with the University of Alberta School of Public Health and the University of Calgary Cumming School of Medicine. He holds a PhD from Manchester Metropolitan University and is a Fellow of the Royal Society for Public Health (UK).

He has over 25 years of experience working in the health sector playing leadership roles provincially, nationally, and internationally. He is a member of multiple expert advisory committees to the Public Health Agency of Canada. He recently chaired the National Surveillance Infrastructure Task Group of the Public Health Network Council of Canada, that developed a public health surveillance blueprint for Canada, aimed at strengthening Canada’s ability to response to public health threats.

Kiren Handa MSc, MBA

Director, Analytics and Business Intelligence Analytics and Informatics

Kiren Handa MSc, MBA

Director, Analytics and Business Intelligence Analytics and Informatics,Cancer Care Ontario

Kiren is the Director of Analytics & Business Intelligence at CCO. In this role, she is responsible for leading the enterprise analytics organization that leverages data and analytics to support decision making and drive actionable insights. Kiren is dedicated to partnering with her business programs to define their data and analytics needs, while building her team to develop deep business knowledge and advance competencies in analytics, business intelligence and information design.

Prior to CCO, Kiren has led strategic planning and operational initiatives with hospitals, health care agencies and government, in both Canada and the US. In addition, Kiren has worked in the area of health information where she was supported research and analysis at the Canadian Institute for Health Information and the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences. She holds an MBA from the Schulich School of Business and an MSc in Epidemiology from the University of Toronto.

Allan Ryan

Director of Clinical Analytics,Alberta Health Service

Allan Ryan, Director, Clinical Analytics at Alberta Health Services (AHS) leads a team 15 analysts, statisticians and data scientists who are using a combination of patient-level clinical and administrative encounter data to drive improvement in patient outcomes. Allan is passionate about creating re-usable, curated data assets that extend our understanding of the progression and control of chronic diseases. Allan’s team is committed to deploying reproducible research protocols and programming in common tools such as SQL, R, and Tableau. Recent team achievements include the creation of patient-level histories of the progression of diabetes. The combination of patient-level encounter and diagnostic histories with medication histories, lab results and patient outcomes is presenting exciting new possibilities for both quality improvement and research into chronic diseases. Prior to joining AHS Allan’s career spanned academic administration, serving on the business faculty at the University of Alberta and industry work in finance and accounting. Allan’s 5 degrees include a Ph.D. in Business from Cornell and an MBA from McGill. Outside of work Allan is passionate cyclist whose most recent achievement was conquering 14,000 foot Pike’s Peak. Allan is proud parent of three and grandparent of two wild Australian toddlers.

Peter Jones

Industry Lead – Healthcare,Microsoft Canada

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Peter Jones is the Healthcare Industry Lead for Microsoft Canada. Microsoft is a technology leader focused on business and
productivity software tools. Microsoft recently opened two Canadian Data Centres that brings cloud based offerings to the
Canadian market and help address the data sovereignty challenges facing healthcare organizations today. Peter leads the healthcare business in Canada with a focus on developing the strategy and vision for the Canadian marketplace. Peter works closely with the Microsoft World Wide Healthcare team to understand and share best practices in modernizing our healthcare system. Peter joined Microsoft Canada in October 1999. He brings 25+ years’ experience in the ICT industry with the last 10+ years focused on helping modernize the Canadian healthcare system through better Digital health. He has a proven track record in sales, strategic planning and business management. He is actively involved in a number Health Informatics groups like COACH, CHIEF, and is an active ITAC Health board member.

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Scott Plewes

VP UX and Analytics,Macadamian

Over the past twenty-five years, Scott has worked in the areas of business strategy, product design and development in the high tech sector. He brings with him cross-sector expertise and experience working with clients in industries such as aviation, telecom, and finance. His primary area of focus over the last the last several years has been in healthcare. Scott has a master’s degree in Physics from Queen's University. Prior to joining Macadamian in 2006, Scott co-founded Maskery and Associates, a UX design consultancy. Scott believes that successful products in critical and complex fields like healthcare can only be created from multi-discipline teams that include clinical, business, technical, design, and data expertise; as well as input from and patients and users.

Jason Jones

Chief Data Scientist,Health Catalyst

Jason Jones believes better use of data is critical to achieving the Quadruple Aim. For people, it means having access to options and guidance to achieve our goals in the context of our preferences and circumstances. For providers, it means
feeling supported in applying expertise and caring to achieve and sustain health. For organizations, it means achieving
better focus and resource application for sustainable improvement. Providing the right information, to the right person,
and at the right time augments individual intelligence and team success. Jason is Chief Data Scientist at Health Catalyst. Previously, he served at Kaiser Permanente including as Research Scientist and VP, Information Support for Care Transformation. Prior to KP, Jason was a Medical Informaticist for Intermountain Healthcare. Other roles have included analytic and marketing leadership positions at Bayer HealthCare, data and information product development at UnitedHealth Group, and various adjunct faculty positions. Jason received his PhD in Biostatistics from the University of Southern California in 2001. His mission is to leverage data to achieve the Quadruple Aim.

Tim Chisamore

Tim Chisamore completed his undergraduate education at Queen's University in 2011. He majored in mathematics and statistics with a focus on data analysis. He graduated with a B.ScH in 2015 and accepted an offer to complete an M.Sc in epidemiology with a specialization in biostatistics at Queen's University. His research placement took place at Kingston, Frontenac, and Lennox & Addington (KFL&A) public health where he worked on the application of aberration detection methods to cold weather injuries in Ontario in an effort to strengthen the cold weather warning system in the province. He also applied novel methods to conduct a spatiotemporal analysis of seasonal influenza in Ontario. Tim is now employed at Niagara Region Public Health as the Epidemiologist supporting the Clinical Services Division with their surveillance and analyses needs and has recently developed a Power BI dashboard containing information on reportable infectious diseases
in the Niagara Region.

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